What’s the best way to get people to follow your blog?
Bribe them!
We call that in Costa Rica…chorizo!
Costa Rica just kicked out the affluent political party that had dominated the scene for a long time…
they got their collective asses stomped…
Why?
They were addicted to chorizo and the ticos got tired of feeding it to them.
But bribes work wonders…sometimes…or, at least, for a time.
Until people wise up.
I see a lot of sites out there promising an awful lot of goodness to their followers.
Bribing their followers with tall tales of economic ecstasy.
Sites in which the author or guru has met with some degree of monetary success and wants to teach you how to do the same.
Funny, but Revolutionary Misfit kinda goes at it from an entirely different angle…
a “revolutionary” angle.
By suggesting that you forget about money.
Or, at least change the way you think about it.
That money is not the KEY to anything…good.
Well, someone will argue, with a whole lot of money I can do a whole lot of good.
Problem with that is that money is the way our society generally rewards greed…
and…
When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator.
John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Corrupting in what way, you ask?
In terms of what men and women are willing to do to people and to planet in order to acquire it.
But wait, we do NEED money…to live…don’t we?
The proof comes in the fact that the majority of the earth’s population LIVES without any money at all, or so little of it as to almost equate, in U.S. terms,
…to nothing.
But money buys us those things we need, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately, the current system IS set up that way.
At least for the time being.
But changing the way one thinks about money means that while we may “use it” to acquire things we truly need…
we shouldn’t try to use it as the vehicle to acquire…
happiness.
But that seems to be what many well-intentioned sites tell us.
Do it this way or that way, and the river of money induced happiness will flow right past your place.
You can control your destiny.
By being one of those rare economically successful online entrepreneurs.
The problem, at least the one that has at times played out in my life, is that the more that money finds its way into your life…
the more control it exerts.
That is the premise of Perkins’ book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
And the same is true in our very own lives.
That’s why this site doesn’t propose to teach you how to make money.
And I fully realize because of that, far less people will pay attention to it…
sadly.
No, it proposes to suggest that you live your life for another reason altogether.
That is, unless and until you take charge by realizing and doing what you were put here for…
you’ll never truly be happy.
And that is to make an impact…
a dent in the universe…
to be a happiness promoter…
not an economically incentivized happiness pursuer…
Then and only then will your life be as it should be…
above and beyond the corrupting influence of money.
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